ABSTRACT
The music which requires any exercise of higher faculties and could arouse genuine interest is considered tiresome. As might be expected the musical and psychological aspects of the discourse are the more rewarding: Hubert Parry’s attempt at an all embracing view of Western culture, using music as both the centre and departure point, is only occasionally successful. Those who keep their ears open and observe, notice how explosive the music is which rapidly gets a vogue. A composer may find that what he has to say requires and invites a vast amount of elaboration, which involves the employment of a great range and variety of artistic methods and devices. The composer who has been rightly developed by the means appropriate to an art may produce works on which the scientist may well expend his powers.
